Re: Dicussion on 'hermaphrodite' (was Of accents & dialects

A linguistic analogy occurs to me - biological sex is to social gender
as etymology is to meaning.  Whatcha think?  Other than "this is way
off topic" and "...which is typical for Mark", that is.



On 11/3/08, Ph.D. <phil@...> wrote:
> R A Brown wrote:
>>
>> Gosh - we've come a long way since the original
>> remark about Middlesex which, of course, has
>> nothing to do with sex at all. It was merely the
>> _Saxon_ kingdom in the middle, as opposed to
>> Essex (kingdom of the east Saxons), Wessex
>> (kingdom of the west Saxons) and, where I hail
>> from, Sussex (kingdom of the south Saxons) --
>> there was no north Saxon kingdom.
>
>
> Of course not -- who would want to live in Nosex ? ;-)
>
> --Ph. D.
>
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